Originally Posted by JoeJoeBrown
The most important thing, however, is how strong their swagger factors are.
Newton
South of the Mason Dixon +10 swagger
Barely literate +5 swagger
Thief +15 swagger
Kicked off of a team of thugs +20 swagger
Big, average speed -3 swagger
Hasn't done jacksquat on the field +15 swagger
Total Swagger: 62ATL College Park Zone 3* +20 swagger Bonus pts

We split with the Bengals and Steelers. I assume we drop a couple duds just because that's what happens. You assume Buffalo is an easy win and then the Ravens play like that Monday Night Jacksonville game.

Agreed with your overrated and underrated, at least to an extent. I don't think WASH will make the SB, although they're my frontrunner to win the division if RG3 is healthy. If Chip Kelly is legit the Eagles could be a sleeper too, but who knows.

Really, in the NFC i think SF, SEA, ATL, or GB will make the SB. In the AFC, it'll be BAL, PIT (with healthy Ben), NE, or DEN.

Its only June, but at this point i would be pretty surprised if it was any other team than these 8. My sleeper SB team would be the Chargers, actually. If they can make the playoffs, they could be dangerous if Rivers reverts to old form.

I don't think a single fan here will predict a loss against the Raiders.

Book it.

I don't doubt that the Chiefs and Raiders could split the series, or hell, I don't doubt that the Raiders could win both against KC seeing as how their recent record against KC goes in Oaklands favor, but you KNOW I can't actually pick the Chiefs to lose to Oakland.

It isn't that I hate the Raiders that much, which I do, but I physically can't do it. I don't even remember typing the W. I blacked out both times and when I came to it was sitting there on the screen.

Agreed with your overrated and underrated, at least to an extent. I don't think WASH will make the SB, although they're my frontrunner to win the division if RG3 is healthy. If Chip Kelly is legit the Eagles could be a sleeper too, but who knows.

Really, in the NFC i think SF, SEA, ATL, or GB will make the SB. In the AFC, it'll be BAL, PIT (with healthy Ben), NE, or DEN.

Its only June, but at this point i would be pretty surprised if it was any other team than these 8. My sleeper SB team would be the Chargers, actually. If they can make the playoffs, they could be dangerous if Rivers reverts to old form.

The reason I have Wash as underrated is that they resigned all their guys but Alexander, have Rak, Merriweather, and Carrikner coming back, have two WR's in their third year. A few guys 2 years removed from injury who showd a lot of promise as rookie in Jenkins/Hankerson. They had an underrated draft and really focused on their weakest unit, the secondary. Rg3 is aparently way ahead of schedule and they closed out the year with a 7 game win streak and if RG3 doesn't get hurt, who knows how far they may have went?

There is a lot of focus on the NFC West right now, but the East is going to be tough as well. In fact I don't see a lot of weak teams in the NFC. All divisions seem like they have good teams at the top with the bottom teams on the rise. It's definitely gonna be a fun year. I don't recall a time in history where there are so many franchise QB's in the league, almost every team in the NFC have one with the weakest being Ponder, Palmer, and Freeman but even the last two guys can put up decent stats. I think Vick could have a resurgent year and Bradford is poised to breakout. Then you have Ryan, Brees, Arod, Stafford, Eli, Romo, Kaep, Wilson, Rg3, Cam, and Cutler who are all capable of putting up monster production. It's really an amazing time right now IMO.

That'd probably be the best case scenario, and consequently not what will actually happen. Games like St. Louis and Minnesota and the in-division games are obvious toss-ups and easily could become losses, and this is all presuming we start the season at the same form we ended last season.

Yeah that's true. I guess he's finally got some help. I really liked Givens a lot coming out of Wake and Austin in the slot with Quick as a posession guy could prove to be a nice set of WR's for him. I think it is about time for him to put up or force the Rams to go another direction. Going back to their trade with Washington, do you think the Rams brass is feeling antsy about that now? Sure it's given them a lot of draft picks but you're going no where fast w/o a special talent at QB. I also heard someone was willing to give a nice chunk for Bradford so this has to be a pepto type season for those guys.

I see Oakland going 6-10, with Flynn getting 4 of the wins and Wilson getting starting time by seasons end and ends up with a couple of wins. Our defense will be much better overall and offensive scheme that's being brought in fits our personell a lot better(DMC in the power running game).

Our roster is very young and talented, the only thing holding us back from a playoff season is at QB, and we don't know how much improved Weeden will be this year. Our #2 CB spot could be a trouble spot too, as well as depth in general in the secondary.